This is the practice of attaching a new product to old online reviews and hoping potential buyers don’t read the actual reviews themselves but are more focused on the fact it has 4 or 5 star ratings.

Amazon is particular is prone to this phenomenon, but most other online retailers probably suffer the same problems with fake online reviews.

An example of Review Merging is where a supplier uploads a cheap but fairly decent product such as a pair of scissors. It is a genuinely good product and receives hundreds of genuine 4* or 5* reviews.

But then the supplier uploads a really meaty product such as a smart phone, or tablet or some other nice looking gadget but isn’t a familiar brand name such as Apple or Samsung but more like Wiota or Sanjina.

Moreover the supplier doesn’t upload this to Amazon as a separate item but they are able to merge it with their existing products (scissors in this example) and they’re able to change the title, the description and photos they go with it. But more importantly is that the existing reviews and ratings (for the scissors) also get merged with the dodgy new gadget.

The gadget in question is cheap and nasty in reality, but by “piggy backing” off reviews from the supplier’s existing reviews it will look to potential customers that the gadget is highly recommended.

It’s only if a customer actually takes the time to read the reviews will they find that the review has absolutely nothing to do with the product (in this example the reviews will be about the scissors rather than the gadget)

In fairness Amazon do try to stamp down on this kind of thing, along with other forms of fake/bogus reviews. But when one considers its sells millions of products every day across the world, along with hundreds of thousands of products and reviews being uploaded on a daily basis, it is no surprise that quite a lot of bogus reviews still remain active and thus conning potential customers.

In summary therefore, don’t just look at the ratings before you buy. Check the reviews themselves for consistency. Also make sure the reviews aren’t bogus either (usually consisting of less than a sentence, or from reviewers with only a handful of reviews against their name)

The following link provides more details

ReviewGeek

Nominated by: Technocunt

I know we’re all about ripping the piss out of mongs and generation idiot, but I thought this little lad deserves a mention.

ITV News Link

Well done that boy, even though in 8 years time, he’s going to be rolling his eyes at her, muttering “I hate you” under his breath, and going out to smoke dope with his boys, innit.

Nominated by: Jeezum Priest

(It’s nice to have the occasional “not a cunt” noms from time to time – Day Admin)

And for my next CUNTING, I give you ITV.com

Their so-called ITVX will not work on my pristine and excellent 6yr old Panasonic TV or PVR.

Having spoken to Panasonic, (a real human) ITV own the app, whose “improved update” has just frozen tens of thousands of us pleb cunts out of using their catch-up service.
Several brands are badly affected, inclusing mega-brands such as Panasonic, Hitachi, HiSense.

So I thought I’d give ITV a call via their Google listed number…. 03448814150 – to be met by the message that ITV no longer operate a switchboard for us pleb cunts and that everything must go through their webshite. So I did. Fucking useless and designed to keep the ITV corporate cunts as far removed from us pleb cunts as possible, just like every fucking cunt council, agency etc.

Found the correct contact, although most give up and fuck off into the void, not wanting to be arsed being messed around with. And they wonder why we despise them, worse, when we get annoyed, are accused of “bullying”. Corporate cunts to the core.
Here is the text of the email I posted on their webshite, I doubt if they’ll respond.

“In your infinite wisdom you decided to nix both my Panasonic TV and PVR so that we can no longer access the hub or “X” or whatever you wish to call it.

This has affected thousands of us who will NOT be replacing perfectly functional equipment, nor watching via a phone/tablet/Computer, as that’s the reason we have a TELEVISION.

I can tell you that Panasonic, HiSense and others are mightily hacked off, but as I see it the only loser is ITV as we use other apps, BBC iPlayer, All4 and channel five to name just three that still work perfectly on a 2016 TV.

Alternatively, send me a voucher for £799 for an up to date unit.

While on the subject of ITVX, who came up with your absolutely appalling, insulting, childish, mindless pile of equine excrement posing as an advert for your service, bombarding us mercilessly and that has me reaching immediately for the MUTE button (God bless the inventor of the remote control) so irritating that it puts me OFF of ITV, and I’m not alone.

I’m not surprised you no longer operate a switchboard, preferring as so many do, to keep us knuckle-dragging proles at arms length, treated like dirt.

Sorry guys, but you have shot yourselves in the foot. No more ITV catch-up, we’ll record stuff if we can be bothered, OR as is now happening, switch channels for alternatives, or, read a book, listen to a CD and leave the TV OFF.

WELL DONE for weaning us off of the TV and saving us the agony of so many of the truly ghastly “woke” adverts” now bombarding us.”

What a bunch of Corporate Cunts, they can now go fuck themselves with a dried barrel cactus.

ITV Website

Nominated by: Sheikh Anvakh

( More info here – Day Admin     Cordbusters Link  )

The clued-in membership of IsAC will be aware of the furore north of the border following the SNP’s recent rail-roading of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill through Holyrood. Now here’s a cautionary little tale for Nicola von Rottweiler to chew on in the wake of that.

Allow to introduce the captivating Isla Bryson from Clydebank, who’s been convicted of carrying out two serious sex assaults against women while still ‘living’ as tatood slaphead Adam Graham.

S/he/it (okay, let’s just make the pronoun ‘shit’ for short) first appeared before the beak as Graham, but by the start of the recent six-day trial at Glasgow’s High Court, ‘Adam’ had become ‘Isla’. Shit is now being held on remand at an all-female institution pending sentencing. I don’t think any decision has yet been reached as to where shit will actually serve an almost certain custodial sentence.

So at this moment, what exactly is the actual ‘gender status’ of this charmer? Fucked if I know, so I can only go by the evidence of my own mince pies, and I refer cunters to the picture first left in the link;

Daily Fail Link.

Now all I can say is, if that’s not a dick poking through those lurid red pants, it must be the world’s largest clitoris.

So then Wee Jimmy. Just where will this creep be banged up? Men’s clink, or women’s clink? What was that? Oh, it’s not your job to interfere in the judicial process… Right.

Nominated by : Ron Knee

And then there’s this from Captain Magnanimous

Isla Bryson is a cunt, isn’t he. (It’s certainly not a looker! Admin)

This is a nomination for the Scottish gender bill, Sturgeon, and the bewigged rapist who raped two women then suddenly decided to ‘transition’.

I might rob a bank tomorrow. If I’m caught, I’m going to identify as a courgette so they can’t convict me. “Courgette didn’t rob no prison”, I’ll say. Lock up Cap’n Maggie”, I’ll suggest.

Hopefully, this’ll be the end of Sturgeon and her miserable career.

Scottish Daily Express

(Yappity Yapp is also a vegan! – Day Admin)

Just one more and I’ll shut up for a bit. I would like to cunt
“Jake Yapp’s Unwinding” on Radio 4 Extra

Described by our friends the British Cunt Corporation as:
“Comedian and broadcaster Jake Yapp with a new live show for January evenings; three hours of comedy, guests and games.”

BBC News Link

Leaving the aptly-named limp luvvie vegan’s* personal inadequacies for another time, I’ll just cunt the programme. Which consists of R4X’s standard fare of recycled comedy programmes, some of them not actually bad, but cut up into 5-10 minute chunks for the hard of understanding and served with an interpolated thin gravy of the cunt Yapp being monumentally unfunny in the company of a fellow luvvie.

It’s Chris Evans on Mandrax. Chatter, silly games and in-crowd giggles intercut with Hancock’s Ten Minutes do not a programme make. They make a dog’s breakfast. Three fucking hours of dog’s breakfast, every fucking night for a month.

*”…the creator and host of the Vegan Life Magazine Podcast, a fun show that’s all about food and how to eat it.” (Yapp’s website)

Nominated by: Komodo

And seconded by: Mary Hinge

Seconded – I had the misfortune to hear some of this unmitigated shite today.

In a slightly masochistic way, I kept listening for a while as I couldn’t believe how bad it was – like listening to someone slowly going out of their mind, and taking you with them.

The host had several guests on who he presented like they were the second coming – even though I should think no bugger has heard of them.

Low points were a discussion about whether a haggis is just a baggy sausage, and the host saying he enjoyed his male privilege by not feeling scared during a power cut and sitting in the dark.

Maybe as it is Burns Night some Scottish people will complain about the haggis being ridiculed and it will get taken off air, you can but hope.